In this section you will learn about the life cycle of the potato. There are several processes that a potato goes through before you get to enjoy eating it. A potato begins its life as a carefully nurtured plantlet in a lab before it becomes a seed that is planted in the warm spring soil.

Read on to discover how that small seed becomes a plant with many tubers (potatoes) on it and is harvested, stored and delivered to the consumer. It takes many people to produce Alberta’s favorite vegetable.

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